as the stoic lone wanderer Eli, the film follows his perilous journey westward across a scorched North American wasteland to deliver a sacred book to safety. Movie Highlights The Hero’s Mission

Directed by the Hughes Brothers, The Book of Eli stars Denzel Washington as Eli, a lone warrior walking across the ruined wasteland of former America. The world has been scorched by a nuclear war that blinded the sun. Water is scarce, radiation rots the living, and marauders control the highways. Eli carries a single, precious object: a leather-bound book.